Match-box holder



-M. DETTMAN.

MATCH BOX HOLDER.

APPLICATION man AUG.I4, 1919.

1,343,354. Patented June 15,1920.

' of various manufacturers,

v UNITED STATS-PATENT OFFICE,

X'p rrM morsAN rrtimorscdoamronnmy MATCH-BOX HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MxxDE'rTMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Match-Box Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a device for supporting a match box so that the matches therein will always be in a convenient position for removal from the box, one or more at a time, until the box is empty.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved match box holder; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the holder containing a match box.

On referring to the drawing, it will be seen that my improved holder is in two parts, both of \vhi *h may be made of sheet metal tinned, enameled, nickel-plated, or otherwlse finished. One part 1, holds a match box, shown at 2, and the-other part 3 is a tray adapted to 7 receive burnt matches. The match box holder 1, which may be of any size to conform to the sizes of match boxes comprises a back 4 which extends both above and below the holder proper, as shown at 5, 6, which extensions have holes 7 therethrough adapting it to be attached to a wall or other object having a vertical surface. It has vertical closed sides 8 and a front, which is open for the greater part of its length, but is closed at the top by a transverse strip 9 and the bottom by a transverse strip 11, both of said strips being integral with the sides. At the bottom, the match box holder is closed in the front portion of the bottom by a strip 12 bent inwardly from the strip 11, but is open, as shown at 13, at the rear portion of the bottom. The sides 8 are extended below the match box holder, as shown at 14, and are bent inward at their lower ends, as shown at 16, to form a guideway forthe tray 3. The top of the match box holder is open and the match box 2 is inserted in the match box holder through the open top, said open top being afterward closed by a closure 17 having two rooflike portions, sloping from the middle, and curved around at their lower edges to form guides 18 to engage flanges 19 extending from the topsof the sides 8 of the match a I Specification of Letters Patent.

having any desired finish, either PatentedJune15, 1920.

Application filed August 14, 1919. Serial No. 317,431.

box holder. The closure 17, although used in the preferred formof my invention, is not an essential part thereof. At their front edges, said sides 8 are bent inward for the greater part of their height, as

shown at 21, to engage the curled over edge of the front side 22 of the. match box sev- The upper por ing upwardly from the flanges 21 to the lower ends of the front strip 9, as shown at 23, and the lower edge is also bentoutwardly, as shown at 2 1, to facilitate the insertion of the hand in the match box totake matches therefrom. The closure 17 is prov portions .26 to facilitate striking ofv the matches.

-A series of small patches 27 of phosphorescent paint isprovided near the upper edge of the back 4.

The mode of use of my match box holder will be understood from the foregoing de-' scription. The front side of the match box having been nearly severed from the rema nder by cutting it therefrom along the of the match box, the cover 17 .is with drawn and the match box is inserted through the open top of the holder, and the closure is then replaced. The front side of the match box is drawn down from the curled over still more from time to timeas the match box the level of the matches in descends, to obtain easy access to the matches therein. When all the matches have been exhausted in the box, the box isremoved from the holder, and a fresh box in serted in the same manner.

I cla1m:

1. The combination with a matchbox ided with roughenedlines of juncture of said side with the body holder comprising side walls, a back wall, I

and a bottom wall,'flanges on the front edges of the side walls and terminating short of the upper ends of said side walls, a match box mounted within said walls, and having one side thereof directed downwardly and forwardly behind andin engagement with said flanges to permit access, to the matches in said box. v I

2. In combination with a match box holder comprising side walls, a back wall and a bottom wall, of a match box mounted within the holder, said sidewalls extending forwardly of the front o plane of the match a box, and flanges on said side walls extendgagement with said flanges.

-;lVlAX ing atright, angles thereto and providing 10 ,a space in which the front side of the match box may be rolled down behind and in en- DETTMANQ 

